Browser applications

ODE provides several applications for database administration as independent browser applications. Many of those applications are also available within different ODE tools (e.g. the OptionBrowser or the ActionBrowser). Since options, actions, messages and other resources are also of interest with application databases, these tools may be used separately.

Options can be stored in any database. Several configurations, where each configuration defines a list of options, might be defined for running database applications. In general, one configuration with the name COMMON is reserved for general options which do not depend on users. Usually, further configurations are provided for each user (typically referring to the user name. One might also define any other type of configuration (e.g. application configurations for different applications.

By default, GUI framework applications try to initialize options from COMMON configuration and from the configuration with the user's name (or the default configuration). One may, however, add options from other configurations by calling Database::initializeOptions() or ProjectContext::initializeOptions(). Options defined in previously activated configurations are overwritten wen being redefined in the configuration loaded by calling the function.